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slackening

/slak-uhn/US // ˈslæk ən //UK // (ˈslækən) //

松弛,松懈,弛缓的,弛缓

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : to make or become less active, vigorous, intense, etc.
    • : to make or become looser or less taut.

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Examples

  • Here was no two-miles plod back again over the burning asphalt, slackening every nerve that had been braced up by the bathe.

  • In the meantime, the speed was slackening, and by and by the harsh tolling of the locomotive bell echoed among the pines.

  • Scarcely slackening his pace he started up the long road by the hill.

  • After a time the animals seemed to him to be slackening their speed.

  • All this makes the slackening of vigor toward the end of a long novel comprehensible.